Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles E. Raven, Canon residentiary of Liverpool Cathedral and sometime Dean of Emmanuel College of Cambridge University, will deliver the William Belden Noble Lectures at the University this year, it was announced last night. The series of six lectures, which are given annually, will begin this year, in all probability, before December 1, and be completed before the Christmas holidays. The general subject of the six addresses has been decided on by Canon Raven as, "The Spirit of God--Creative and Indwelling...
...What he learned at Harvard", continued the former head of the organization which publishes the 'Century' and 'St. Nicholas' magazines and the 'Century Dictionary', "would have prevented him from striking out in such an original vein as that. Nor would Mark Twain have dared to go against every canon of good taste in literature and turn out The Innocents Abrind if he had sat beneath the elms of good old Yale. Twain struck out for himself and his poor taste was so funny that it made a new kind of literature in which taste did not seem to enter...
...Rome, excavations begun several years ago by the Rev. Canon E. S. Hughes, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek...
...Black Canon road, 20 miles out of Phoenix, Ariz., a crowd of homesteaders last week executed an orderly lynching. When the grisly ceremony was over, Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work had been hanged for the second time in two weeks-in effigy. Again as at Scotts Bluff, Neb. (TIME, June 7, FARMERS), dissatisfaction with the Government's reclamation policy was the cause of the atrocity...
...remained for Brown University to propound the modern application of that ancient pedagogical canon, mens sana in corpore sano. Last week, President W. H. P. Faunce announced that hereafter his undergraduates will be examined not only as to their lungs, hearts, livers and eyes by physicians, but also as to their worries, doubts, despairs, loves and hates by trained psychologists. There will be the physical examination at the gymnasium, the psychological examination in the laboratory...